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gosensgo05

1. Too many trolls. The level of troll activity from the Mets and Braves fans has been out of control. I'm sick of the few bitter Expo fans like "adoptayank" and "pascualp". I think the Orioles trolls have slithered away for good.

Slaying the "Zimmm" was a minor victory but there will be more "Zimmms" out there.

2. I can't criticize the National players, the management, and the city government without threats of violence, a few profane replies or asking the moderator for banishment from the boards.

C'mon Nats fans...we can disagree but do so politely. Posting profane messages or making violent threats is not good behavior.

3. In this forum I can post words such as "lame", "idiot", "moron" or the word "screw". I'm sick of putting symbols and extra spaces between words.

4. I can post direct web links in the messages in this forum. No more of this "ht tp" junk from the MLB Nationals site.

I haven't experienced too much "internal" strife at the MLB boards, but then I haven't done a lot of criticizing of the team so far, either.

This site will remain in wait-and-see mode for a while. I will try to refrain from "over-moderating", but I do ask that we all try to be as civil as possible. It will make my job a lot easier and hopefully lead to a more comfortable and friendlier environment than is often found at the MLB message boards.

gosensgo05

I have had some feuds with some Nationals posters. We are supporting the same team. Whenever I post a message that points out a problem with the Nationals or the city of DC, I get violent threats.

I don't feel comfortable posting in the MLB forum anymore because of the hostile environment.

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All of the above are some of the reasons why I started this site

I haven't experienced too much "internal" strife at the MLB boards, but then I haven't done a lot of criticizing of the team so far, either.

This site will remain in wait-and-see mode for a while. I will try to refrain from "over-moderating", but I do ask that we all try to be as civil as possible. It will make my job a lot easier and hopefully lead to a more comfortable and friendlier environment than is often found at the MLB message boards.

Yeah let's keep it troll-free, manners and respect is what it's all about. I don't even mind fans of other teams criticizing as long as it's a just and somewhat valid criticism that isn't just done to make fun or belittle other board members.

Yeah let's keep it troll-free, manners and respect is what it's all about. I don't even mind fans of other teams criticizing as long as it's a just and somewhat valid criticism that isn't just done to make fun or belittle other board members.

Agreed. It's only a matter of time before a thread gets out of hand, but I will be watching very closely. It's a fine line between troll-squishing and over-moderating, so I will probably be somewhat lenient (tempers will flare no doubt, we are all only human after all) but I will certainly not be tolerating any threats, violent or otherwise. Flood control is enabled by default, so we won't have to worry about characters like "guillenisababy" anymore, either.

Basically I think if everyone just remembers to take a deep breath and relax, we should all be able to get along and enjoy ourselves

As I said, it will be a fine line for a while. The only reason I can see banning someone is if they were to do something way out there like make serious physical threats against another member or something similarly heinous *OR* if they consistently and repeatedly showed themselves to be incapable of posting in a mature manner. Constructive criticism is perfectly fine and is even encouraged.

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dotsandloops

One problem I noticed with last night's game was that some posters (on the MLB board) were taunting and mocking the Mets trolls in the 7th or 8th inning, as if we had the game already won. Number one, don't feed the trolls; number two, don't count your chickens before they hatch. We very nearly lost that game, and about half of the threads on the board would have seemed incredibly foolish.

Robinhood

3. In this forum I can post words such as "lame", "idiot", "moron" or the word "screw". I'm sick of putting symbols and extra spaces between words.

Thank you thank you thank you. I was starting to feel like the thought police were in charge over there. Imagine a baseball message board for Washington fans in which you cannot use the term Damn Yankees. And the whole "put an asterisk in it and it's okay to use the f-word even to insult someone" is just plane silly.

Thank you.

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Anonymous

Being new to the MLB site I can't believe that they allow the cross posting from one team to the other. But I guess that whatever drives traffic to their site is fine with them as long as it makes money.

Speaking of formats, I've seen a few PHPBB forums where users have image sigs, and before things get out of hand, maybe a max size/dimension should be given, or better not allowing then in favor of text only sigs might be the way to go. I'm sure someone will eventually try attaching an image to their signature using the BBCodes.

I'm sure most here have seen them, but they eat up space and bandwidth as well as slow down page loads. Maybe disallowing them would be a smart move?

and then find someone among us who is good at making sig banners, and have them design a couple of "Nationals Forum" Sig Banners of the appropriate size, that we can just slap our own individual names on. let us choose between two of three design schemes, put our names on it somewhere.

Yeah let's keep it troll-free, manners and respect is what it's all about. I don't even mind fans of other teams criticizing as long as it's a just and somewhat valid criticism that isn't just done to make fun or belittle other board members.

Which means that jerspos should stay away as well. He likes to curse out fellow Nats fans

Thanks, and ditto on all of the above. I liked the slower pace of the MLB board, but as our team's troubles have grown, so have troll infestations, along with long threads of one-on-one insult exchanges. Many regulars have left, I see quite a few on here. The moderating is more sensible, the dialogue more civil—and by the way, as Ken (ex-"No Shoe Joe" I think) says, WNFF loads and runs at warp speed by comparison. Keep up the great work.